The Bursary and Scholarship Award Ceremony organized by the Ondo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC) faced disruption when suspected hoodlums assaulted the agency’s commissioner, Kehinde Akinrotoye.
Reports indicate that these individuals forcibly entered the venue and initiated gunfire, causing a significant disruption to the scheduled event.
Attendees, including both staff and students, hastily sought refuge amid the chaos created by the hoodlums.
Sources revealed that the perpetrators arrived in hired vehicles, unleashing a volley of shots onto the premises, thereby preventing the ceremony from proceeding as planned.
“The beneficiaries of the bursary and scholarship award were already seated when the hoodlums came and started shooting sporadically into the venue and this led to pandemonium in the area.
”Security officers attached to the office, could not curtail the activities of the hoodlums as they forced their way into the premises.
It was gathered that one of the agency’s commissioners, Kehinde Akinrotoye, was beaten to a pulp by the beneficiaries who alleged him of sponsoring the hoodlums to disrupt the event.
Akinrotoye’s vehicle and another vehicle parked on the premises of the agency were vandalized.
Timely intervention of police detectives from the State Police Command saved the situation from degenerating.
They were able to bring the riotous situation under control.
Police detectives were still keeping vigil at the agency at the time of filling in the report.
Meanwhile, the attacked commissioner has been rushed to the state hospital for medical attention.
He declined to comment when contacted for comments.
